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UNITED STATES COURT of APPEALS COUNSEL for the SIXTH CIRCUIT ARGUED: Donald L RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 2 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of No. 02-5895 ELECTRONIC CITATION: 2004 FED App. 0080P (6th Cir.) Louisville, et al. File Name: 04a0080p.06 _________________ UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS COUNSEL FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ARGUED: Donald L. Cox, LYNCH, COX, GILMAN & _________________ MAHAN, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants. John L. Tate, STITES & HARBISON, Louisville, Kentucky, for MARTINGALE LLC; BRIDGE X Appellees. ON BRIEF: Donald L. Cox, William H. THE GAP, INC., - Mooney, LYNCH, COX, GILMAN & MAHAN, Louisville, - Plaintiffs-Appellants, Kentucky, Theodore L. Mussler, Jr., MUSSLER & - No. 02-5895 ASSOCIATES, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants. John - L. Tate, Emily R. Hartlage, STITES & HARBISON, v. ,> Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees. - CITY OF LOUISVILLE; - _________________ - WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT OPINION CORPORATION, - - _________________ Defendants-Appellees. - N JAMES S. GWIN, District Judge. In this case, Martingale, LLC (“Martingale”) and Bridge the Gap, Inc. (“Bridge the Appeal from the United States District Court Gap”) appeal the district court’s ruling permitting the City of for the Western District of Kentucky at Louisville. Louisville (“City”) and the Waterfront Development No. 01-00255—Charles R. Simpson, III, District Judge. Corporation to condemn a structure known as the Big Four Bridge. The Big Four Bridge connects Jeffersonville, Indiana Argued: October 22, 2003 with Louisville, Kentucky. The City and the Waterfront Development Corporation wish to use the bridge as part of a Decided and Filed: March 17, 2004 public park, but Martingale and Bridge the Gap contend that the City has no legal power to condemn the bridge. Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge; GIBBONS, Circuit Judge; GWIN, District Judge.* For the following reasons, the district court’s decision is AFFIRMED. * The Honorable James S. Gwin, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation. 1 No. 02-5895 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of 3 4 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of No. 02-5895 Louisville, et al. Louisville, et al. I. Background Five years later, the bridge's approaches were removed. The bridge remains in this condition today, completely The story of this case begins in 1888, when the Kentucky inaccessible to humans. For the past thirty years, the bridge General Assembly chartered the Louisville and Jeffersonville has not been functional. Bridge Company (“Bridge Company”). The Bridge Company’s charter provided it the “right and power to The bridge's abandonment did not stop the transfer of the construct, maintain and operate” a bridge to make rail bridge. Penn Central Transportation Company went bankrupt connections between the railroad lines on each side of the in 1970 and transferred all of its properties other than Ohio River. A year later, the Bridge Company approved final operating railroads to the Penn Central Corporation. But the plans for the bridge, and in 1895, construction was completed. Penn Central Corporation did not keep the bridge, either. In 1982, Charles R. Hammond (“Hammond”) acquired the In 1927, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis bridge and then transferred it to the Louisville and Railroad Company (known as the “Big Four Railroad Jeffersonville Bridge Corporation (“Bridge Corporation”), of Company”) acquired an interest in the bridge from the Bridge which he was president. Hammond then transferred all of the Company. Over the following two years, the bridge and its real property associated with the bridge, but not the bridge approaches were rebuilt. Years later, in 1955, the Bridge itself, to the Kentucky Real Estate Holding Corporation. Company and Big Four merged, making Big Four the bridge's sole owner and the operator. In 1987, Bridge the Gap acquired the bridge at a Sheriff's sale for $10,300. The Waterfront Development Corporation Through a series of subsequent mergers, Big Four became purchased the real estate surrounding the bridge pylon on the a part of the Penn Central Transportation Company (“Penn Kentucky side of the river in 1995. In 2000, Bridge the Gap Central”). In 1968, Penn Central decided that due to its sold its interest in the bridge to Martingale for $400,000, merger with the New York Central Railroad Company, retaining only the right to display holiday lights on the bridge certain rail lines were surplus, and that continuing to operate for a ten-year period.2 these lines would be a “financial burden . and an undue burden on interstate commerce.” The rail line crossing the Hoping to use the bridge as a pedestrian walkway as a part bridge was one such line. A year later, the Interstate of the City's Waterfront Park, the City of Louisville passed a Commerce Commission (“ICC”) approved Penn Central's resolution authorizing condemnation of the bridge on application to abandon the bridge. In 1969, the rail line November 28, 2000. In April 2001, Bridge the Gap and spanning the bridge was thus abandoned.1 Martingale sued in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Their suit sought a declaratory judgment of their right to insulate the bridge from 1 The record is not clear on what exactly was abandoned. One way 2 to read the record indicates that only the rail line was abandoned, and that Because the sale contract was contingent upon the grant of certain the ICC proceeding had no effect on the bridge. Another interpretation permits from the City and the Waterfront Development Corporation, the holds that Penn Central abandoned the bridge when it abandoned the rail sale may not have been consummated. However, Martingale apparently line. Regardless, this ambiguity does not affect our resolution of the case. has at least an equitable lien on the Bridge under the terms of the contract. No. 02-5895 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of 5 6 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of No. 02-5895 Louisville, et al. Louisville, et al. condemnation, an injunction restraining the City of Louisville The City of Louisville and the Waterfront Development and the Waterfront Development Corporation from Corporation respond by arguing that there are no issues of condemning the bridge, compensatory damages, costs, and material fact regarding any of the above-mentioned issues, attorneys’ fees. In July 2001, the City filed suit in Kentucky and that the district court correctly granted judgment in their state court to condemn the bridge. favor as a matter of law. Additionally, the City and the Waterfront Development Corporation say that the Anti- On June 5, 2002, the district court entered summary Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, prohibits this Court from judgment in favor of the City and the Waterfront enjoining a state court condemnation proceeding. Development Corporation. The court reasoned that: (1) the bridge is not in interstate commerce; (2) the Rivers and The Court analyzes these arguments below. Harbors Act does not prohibit condemnation of the bridge; (3) the bridge’s status as a post route does not prohibit III. Standard of Review condemnation; and (4) the plaintiffs’ alleged franchises had been forfeited in 1969 when the ICC permitted Penn Central An appellate court reviews a district court’s grant of to abandon the bridge. Additionally, the district court held summary judgment de novo. Doren v. Battle Creek Health that even if the plaintiffs possessed the alleged franchises, this Sys., 187 F.3d 595, 597 (6th Cir. 1999). Summary judgment was no bar to condemnation because the City and the is appropriate where the evidence submitted shows “that there Waterfront Development Corporation could condemn the is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving franchises and pay the plaintiffs reasonable compensation for party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. them. Plaintiffs Martingale and Bridge the Gap now appeal Civ. P. 56(c). The moving party has the initial burden of the district court’s grant of summary judgment. showing the absence of a genuine issue of material fact as to an essential element of the non-moving party’s case. Waters II. Summary of the Parties’ Arguments v. City of Morristown, 242 F.3d 353, 358 (6th Cir. 2001). A fact is material if its resolution will affect the outcome of the Martingale and Bridge the Gap argue that summary lawsuit. Daughenbaugh v. City of Tiffin, 150 F.3d 594, 597 judgment was inappropriate because they presented enough (6th Cir. 1998) (citing Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 evidence to the district court to create issues of material fact U.S. 242, 248 (1986)). with regard to: (1) whether the bridge is in interstate commerce, and if so, whether the City’s attempt to condemn Once the moving party satisfies its burden, the burden shifts it is an impermissible burden on interstate commerce; (2) to the non-moving party to set forth specific facts showing a whether the bridge and any franchises to operate it were triable issue. Matsushita Elec. Indus. v. Zenith Radio Corp., abandoned as a matter of law under the ICC’s procedures for 475 U.S. 574, 586 (1986). It is not sufficient for the non- abandoning a rail line; (3) whether a municipality in moving party merely to show some possibility of doubt as to Kentucky can condemn a federal, Kentucky, or Indiana the material facts. Id. franchise to own and operate bridge over the Ohio River; and (4) whether the City of Louisville can condemn personal In deciding a motion for summary judgment, the court property for use in a park. views the factual evidence and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party. National No. 02-5895 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of 7 8 Martingale LLC, et al. v. City of No.
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